The first book to encompass adult-gerontology practice guidelines for primary care, this comprehensive resource is designed as a text and reference for health care practitioners specializing as adult-gerontology nurse practitioners (A-GNP).

It provides current national practice guidelines for delivering high-quality primary health care to adult, older adult, and pregnant patients in the outpatient setting. The book delivers chapters that focus on the older adult person, including a chapter describing the major effects of aging on each body system.

Key features: - Focuses specifically on the adult, older adult, and pregnant patient populations - Delivers consistent presentation of more than 240 disorders by body system for ease of access - Step-by-step review of 19 commonly used procedures - "Practice Pointers" indicate highly important care points - Includes more than 140 extensive Patient Teaching Guides for "take home" information - Useful as a review text when preparing to take the A-GNP certification course and exam

Platform:

Ovid

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Product Type: Book

Author/Editor: Cash, Jill C.; Glass, Cheryl A.

ISBN: 978-0-826-12762-4

Specialty:

Geriatrics & Gerontology

Gerontology

Language: English

Edition: 1st Ed.

Pages: 1112

Illustrations: 0

Year: 2015

Doody's Star Rating®:
Score: 92

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